what happened, do you think? yeah, i mean, you know, i was in london in my 20s, you know, i had a greatjob, you know, making bits of money, out all the time. that s what we did at i d, you know? your teens and your 20s, you go out. you don t need any sleep, you know, you drink, you party and then you come back to work and i did that for so long and then, when i hit the age of 30 i decided, you know what? if i was going to put my life into focus, if i was going to sort of find any kind of success notjust in work, but within myself as a human being that i needed to. . .to be clean. you spent 14 years on the alcoholics anonymous programme. yes. basically, i literally had stopped six months before. i literally woke up one day after a party and decided, you know, this is it. somebody stole my passport, i m done. so i was on a plane to new york six months later and a friend approached me on the plane, and i said, i haven t drank for six months, and she said,
and i was taking over. timing is everything. you write in the book about this era and the parties the drugs, the alcohol, the intense kind of you write about it reaching a point where you are soul sick and on a path of self destruction. it was that? what happened, do you think? yeah, i mean, you know, i was in london in my 20s, you know, i had a greatjob, you know, making bits of money, out all the time. that s what we did at i d, you know? your teens and your 20s, you go out. you don t need any sleep, you know, you drink, you party and then you come back to work and i did that for so long and then, when i hit the age of 30 i decided, you know what? if i was going to put my life into focus, if i was going to sort of find any kind of success notjust in work, but within myself as a human being that i needed to. . .to be clean. you spent 14 years on the alcoholics anonymous programme. yes. basically, i literally had stopped six months before.
when i hit the age of 30 i decided, you know what? if i was going to put my life into focus, if i was going to sort of find any kind of success notjust in work, but within myself as a human being that i needed to.to be clean. you spent 1a years on the alcoholics anonymous programme. yes. basically, i literally had stopped six months before. i literally woke up one day after a party and decided, you know, this is it. somebody stole my passport, i m done. so i was on a plane to new york six months later and a friend approached me on the plane, and i said, i haven t drank for six months, and she said, do you know about aa? and i was, like, no, what is that? and she said, when you get off the plane, find a meeting and i think you re going to like it. so i did that, but i was already six months clean, and i found fellowship. i found everybody was sort of even, you know? it didn t matter whether you were